Currently have institutional policy / mandate: Yes. It is described as a 'policy' and not a mandate. It is not enforced.

Currently have preservation policy for repository: Yes. The current effort for the repository is on gaining content rather than preservation, so in practice very little attention is given to the preservation policy.

Quality assurance policy for research content: We accept peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed materials. The preference is for peer reviewed items only, but in practice we accept other scholarly research publications and arts outputs. Determining whether items are sufficiently scholarly to be in scope is up to repository staff but guidance from academic Schools is now being sought.

Currently have e-theses deposit policy: No

E-theses policy is opt-out (i.e. the thesis will be made OA unless the student requests an exception): N/A

Institutional context

Department with lead responsibility for repository: Planning Support Office

Integration / plan for integration with research management systems: No plans at the moment. We do include name of funder and name of projects in CentAUR, via an autocomplete based on data supplied by the research office.

Commercial CRIS system:

Which one?:

Bids for external funding: Yes. JISC start-up project

More about the repository:NB The 25% deposit rate for full texts is based on 2010 and 2011 publications in CentAUR. About 35% of metadata records are deposited with a full text, but this falls to 25% after copyright checks.